Arthur Lindo Patterson, 1902-1966

Paul Patterson: In Memoriam

Caltech neuroscientist Paul Patterson, whose career spanned developmental neurobiology, behavioral neuroscience, and neuroimmunology, passed away on June 25 at the age of 70 from an aggressive brain tumor. Patterson was a pioneer and an iconoclast who was not afraid to work outside of the scientific mainstream; consequently, he made a number of important and seminal contributions that opened up...

Patterson-Wiedemann construction revisited

In 1983, Patterson and Wiedemann constructed Boolean functions on n = 15 input variables having nonlinearity strictly greater than 2n−1−2 n−1 2 . Construction of Boolean functions on odd number of variables with such high nonlinearity was not known earlier and also till date no other construction method of such functions are known. We note that the PattersonWiedemann construction can be underst...

Arne Tiselius, 1902-1971.

Leopold Schenk (1840-1902).

Leopold Schenk attained international fame by his contributions to the science of embryology. The first chair of embryology in any medical school was established for him in the University of Vienna. This article briefly describes his life and his work.

Owsei Temkin 1902-2002.